The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

REVIEWS THE SECRET OF EFFICIENCY. By GRACE DAWSON. William Rider & Son. Is, net. GRACE Dawson is a spiritual Grace Darling. Oh the wonderful gospel that she brings to perishing humanity! She has discovered the secret of eternal youth : like most great discoveries, it isa very simple one. “When tired, rest!” This puts Grace Dawson several streets ahead of Madame Curie, and disposes once for all of the assertion that the female brain is inferior to the male. “When tired, rest!” How grand, how simple, how sublime! When human souls, by passion led, Are overworked and underfed, Who tucks them in their little bed ? Grace Dawson. I yawn, I rub mine eyes, I prop The weary head that wants to drop— Who soothes me to a humming-top ? Grace Dawson. Whose smooth and soporific prose Lulls me to infinite repose, Hushes the brain and stirs the nose? Grace Dawson. Only one shilling of your hoard ! Even the humblest can afford The luxury of being bored By Dawson. MorpuHeEvs. THE INFERNO. By AUGUST STRINDBERG. Translated by CLAUD FIELD. William Rider & Son. I HAVE already had to speak to publishers about cheap production, In this case I must protest emphatically against the employment of a translator who makes a solecism nearly every time he touches Paris. £.g. ‘northern railway station’ for ‘Gare du Nord,’ ‘Lilas brewery’ for *Closerie des Lilas, ‘St. Martin’s Gate’ for ‘Porte St. Martin,’ ‘Rue de Fleurs’ for ‘Rue des Fleurs,’ ‘racecourse’ for some unindicated part of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ‘churchyard’ of Montparnasse for ‘cemetery,’ P2 227